Misc Random Thoughts Livin’ the life of a working boy November 16, 2008 / November 16, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment So, I thought I might like to tell you all that I am working the life of the working man now. I recently (on Thursday) started work at my first real full-time job at Digital Pacific. It seems like a pretty good place, and even though it means moving from my current place in residence, […] Read more » employment jobs personal
MyBanco Random Thoughts How the stock exchange works October 8, 2008 / October 8, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 3 Comments on How the stock exchange works I have always wanted to be able to write my own software to run a stock exchange, but I have never been able to get a full grasp on how the whole stock exchange system worked. I always had been left with many questions. How exactly are the prices decided of the buying and selling […] Read more » economics finance MyBanco stock exchange
Random Thoughts Feeling 18 September 21, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment On the 12th of September, I turned 18. This would be one reason for me slacking off in terms of number of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent me a happy birthday email 🙂 Will post a little about what I did for my birthday as time goes on, I am somewhat disapointed that I […] Read more » birthday personal
Random Thoughts File sharing is not piracy September 6, 2008 / September 7, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on File sharing is not piracy I just hate it when terms get thrown around incorrectly. One of the two words that really annoy me when they are said incorrectly is piracy. Piracy is when you are on the sea, and steal things from other ships. Spread the word: Download the SVG file. Filesharing.svg Read more » filesharing i hate media
Random Thoughts What ShareSource looked like back in the day… September 4, 2008 / September 7, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment What ShareSource looked like back in the day, when it had “only” 200 projects. This is back on the old origional ShareSource software that I wrote for me and webs. The new software is alot faster. Read more » archive from the vaults ShareSource
Random Thoughts Adobe for Linux August 31, 2008 / August 31, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on Adobe for Linux I am disappointed,as a user of both Linux *and* After Effects that After Effects refuses to run on Linux. Let’s face it; After Effects, and other applications in the Creative Suite are the most requested applications to be supported by Adobe on Linux. With a growing market share, and many companies putting in quite a […] Read more » Adobe After Effects Linux Open Letter Software Video Windows
Linux Random Thoughts AegeanLinux, Looking back… August 23, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Today I was setting up a PmWiki install for a website (more about this in the coming days), and it reminded me about AegeanLinux’s old site. Anyways, I don’t think I have any backups of that site any more, but I did go to archive.org (one of the Internet’s best websites), and look to see […] Read more » AegeanLinux archives old times retro ShareSource
Random Thoughts Usefull DNS advice August 14, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment <Deepa> Hosting DNS content on a dynamic IP is like trying to have a baby with a dog. Even IF you succeed it’ll still be a freak (Deepa on #opennic, irc.freenode.net) Read more » advice dns ip
Random Thoughts How much it costs to run a .tld July 29, 2008 / July 29, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on How much it costs to run a .tld If we were to run a proper top level domain (eg, a .au or a .nz), I would need seven or eight computers located around the world. The proof is in the root. dig au NS @4.2.2.2 | grep ^au. | wc -l The command above returns “8“, which means that the Australian top level […] Read more » BIND dns IANA icann maths OpenNIC rants